It’s illegal to have your remains decomposed naturally (or one of those cool new methods like composting or alkaline hydrolysis). You’re legally required to be stuffed full of embalming chemicals and buried in a box, or cremated, polluting the air and wasting bioavailable nutrients, to be turned into high pH, high sodium ashes.
I think this is because the laws were mainly created by Catholics (this is Louisiana, where we have parishes instead of counties), and people are still too superstitious to make sense.
We have a lot of weird hangups on dead bodies and disposal. I wish I could just be buried under a tree when I die.
This is what I want. It’s a chance to continue living, even after my consciousness has passed. My death will feed new life, and I find that beautiful.
A friend of mine has his will or whatever say in regards to his body “gut me like a fish”. And I’m with him on this. Harveat whatever organs are still usefull then just use the rest of me as fetilizer. No need for my body to stop being useful to someone somewhere or hell even being useful to the rest of nature.
I get the idea that people don’t want to get their neighbors’ grandpa seeping into shallow groundwater.
I’d prefer that to formaldehyde seeping into my ground water.
When I die, just throw me in the trash.
Be buried in Washington. We invented composting humans.
Catholics weren’t really allowed to be cremated until Vatican 2, in the 60s.
Vatican 2: The New Vaticaning
Vatican 2: Holy Boogaloo
National Lampoon’s European Vatication
Meanwhile, there’s always the Body Farm…
Blue Laws
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_laws_in_the_United_States
…Blah blah can’t desecrate the sabbath with alcohol…
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Not only can you buy liquor on Sundays in Massachusetts these days, but they even went and legalized tattoos!
Come to the Chicagoland. Not only can you buy alcohol on Sundays but you can buy it pretty much wherever you want (gas stations, Walgreens, CVS, etc.).
Do drug stores have store brand liquor?
Mmm gimme some Walgreens Vodka
Mmm gimme some Walgreens Vodka
But you can’t buy a car on Sunday in Chicagoland. Which is weird.
Ha true. I find it nice though. Then I can walk the lots on Sunday’s casually car shopping without being pestered by a salesman.
Came here to post this.
I live in Hesse, Germany. The dumbest law I know about (that’s still in use but rarely enforced) is this:
Aus der Altstadtsatzung der nordhessischen Kleinstadt Bad Sooden-Allendorf: In § 10 Abs. 6 ist geregelt, dass „Sonnenschirme […] beige-, pastell- oder sandfarbig“ sein müssen. Wer dieser Regelung zuwiderhandelt, begeht eine Ordnungswidrigkeit und kann nach dem Gesetz über Ordnungswidrigkeiten (OWiG) mit einer Geldbuße von bis zu 15.000 Euro bestraft werden.
Translation: In that particular town, sun umbrellas have to be pastel/cream colors. If you put one up that is too bright / too dark / too whatever, it can lead to a fine of 15.000€ (ca. $16,700).
Source: https://www.bad-sooden-allendorf.de/politik-ortsrecht/satzungen
Man that is a way steeper fine than I was expecting!
Until a couple of months ago it was illegal in Sweden for a restaurant owner to allow spontaneous dancing if they did not have a dancing permit. Since July this year they don’t have to apply for a permit but still have to notify authorities about arranged dancing.
I get this law, I for one don’t want those damn Swedes dancing around! (/s for people who can’t tell)
In Boston Massachusetts a bar needs an entertainment license otherwise patrons aren’t allowed to dance. Apparently they can be hard to get. I got yelled at once in a bar, but I don’t know what you expect people to do in a bar with loud music and lots of drinks
In France, it is illegal to name your pig Napoleon.
common france L
I’m from Seattle, Washington, and it’s illegal to pretend your parents are rich here. Not sure why, though 🤷♂️
Just wait until my father hears about this! Now I’m going home in my 1998 Toyota corola. I only drive it because my parents are trying to teach me what it’s like to be one of the poor. They’re quite wealthy, you see.
I’d prefer that to rich kids slumming it and cosplaying poor until they get bored of it
Common people vibes intensify.
Mine is J-walking even though police officers J-walk
I think most people don’t know what the jay walking laws are.
I don’t even know what j walking is
Crossing the street at a place that is not a designated crossing area.
I appreciate the law in Massachusetts, USA where jaywalking is so common that the fine was reduced to $1 for the first three times in a year and a whopping $2 for each time after that.
You can’t remove the law, but you can make it silly enough that it’s never enforced.
In South Korea, you cannot marry your great grandma’s cousin’s grandkids.
This actually changed in 2005: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_809_of_the_Korean_Civil_Code
Nope. That’s about same last name. This is still very much a thing.
The police vow to make a visit if you tie a giraffe to a telephone pole.
Where else you supposed to tie a giraffe to?
A dozen states still have sodomy laws on the books and only aren’t enforced because of Lawrence v. Texas, a 2003 SCOTUS decision.
Be interesting to see how that plays out the next couple of years.
Can’t buy beer or wine at Walmart before noon on Sundays. But there’s totally a war on Christianity here lol.
My entire county used to be dry on sundays,… but I live 2 min from the wv state line and they give no fucks if you Wana get hammered at 7am Sunday so it was pointless. Now we have Sunday sales after like 10 or so I believe, maybe earlier.
Can’t buy beer or wine at all at Walmart in my state. Or any other grocery store, unless they have a restaurant.
Well, the DMCA is ridiculous luddite garbage. But it stopped being silly years ago, and shows us our laws are stupid and made by silly people.
The government should have a say in how you cum. Get off the wrong way with the wrong people ; thats a paddling
insane wording but ur right
Walking across the street outside of the permitted area even if there is not a car in sight.
It’s technically illegal to consume alcohol in your own backyard if you can be seen from the outside.
